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What is an executive order, and why don't presidents use them all the time?

  • Written by Sharece Thrower, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
imageModern presidents, including Trump and Obama, have issued far fewer executive orders than their predecessors before World War II.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden signed nine executive orders – far surpassing every other president’s first day on the job in modern history.

Thes...

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How new voters and Black women transformed Georgia's politics

  • Written by Sharon Austin, Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
imageGeorgia's recent election of three Democrats for national office – one Jewish, one Black and one Catholic – upended over a century of politics openly hostile to minorities.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

In July 1964, Georgia restaurateur Lester Maddox violated the newly passed Civil Rights Act by refusing to serve three Black Georgia...

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Incitement to violence is rarely explicit – here are some techniques people use to breed hate

  • Written by H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Mississippi State University
imageDangerous speech is a toxic brew of emotion and age-old tropes.Mihajlo Maricic / iStock via Getty Images Plus

As senators plan for an impeachment trial in which former President Donald Trump is accused of inciting his supporters to mount a deadly insurrection at the Capitol, global concern is growing about threats of violent unrest in multiple...

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Beetle parents manipulate information broadcast from bacteria in a rotting corpse

  • Written by Stephen Trumbo, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
imageParent beetle regurgitating liquefied carrion to its young.Stephen Trumbo, CC BY-SA

Biologists are accustomed to hearing stories of microbes manipulating their host – a fungus that turns ants into suicidal zombies, a protozoan that makes rats seek out cat urine – but there are few examples of hosts turning the tables on their microbes.

M...

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How Biden's dogs could make the Oval Office a workplace with less stress and better decision-making

  • Written by Ellen Furlong, Associate Professor of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University
imagePresidential pup Major Biden stretches his legs on the White House lawn.The Official White House photo/Adam Schultz via Twitter, CC BY

On Jan. 24 the White House welcomed two new residents: Champ and Major, the newly minted first dogs of the United States. The first dogs are poised to offer special benefits to workers in the White House.

imageThe first...

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Think US evangelicals are dying out? Well, define evangelicalism ...

  • Written by Ryan Burge, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eastern Illinois University
imageNot flagging, merely changing stripes. The Washington Post via Getty Images

The death spiral of evangelicalism has long been written about in both the religious and mainstream press.

The assumption is that evangelicalism has weathered the storms of secularization and politicization poorly. Journalist Eliza Griswold, writing for The New Yorker,...

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Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don't want them making household decisions

  • Written by Katrina Kosec, Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
imageWomen who work outside the home in Papua New Guinea often continue shouldering the same domestic and child care responsibilities as before. Rachel Gilbert and Gracie Rosenbach, IFPRI, CC BY-SA

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing...

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TikTok's sea chanteys – how life under the pandemic has mirrored months at sea

  • Written by Jessica Floyd, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English, Community College of Baltimore County
imageDaily life on a ship could be monotonous and dreary, so songs were sung to lighten the mood.Heritage Images via Getty Images

If you’ve perused social media in recent weeks, you may have come across people singing chanteys, which were work songs employed on merchant sailing ships.

Historically, chanteys – which are also spelled as...

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The body's fight against COVID-19 explained using 3D-printed models

  • Written by Nathan Ahlgren, Assistant Professor of Biology, Clark University
imageNeutralizing antibodies attach to the tips of the spike proteins of the SARS CoV-2 virus.David Goodsell/ProteinDatabase, CC BY-SA

Editor’s note: In this interview, Nathan Ahlgren, assistant professor of biology at Clark University, uses 3D-printed models to explain what proteins do in viruses, how they interact with human cells, how the...

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Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill

  • Written by Robert Gudmestad, Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
imageTubman, left, with a few of the former slaves she helped escape. Bettmann/Getty Images

The Biden administration has revived a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill after Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary delayed the move.

That’s encouraging news to the millions of people who have expressed support for putting her face on the bill....

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